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Count all VVPATs, if mismatch with EVM figures, says Sitaram Yechury
Opposition has urged the EC to frame new rules for counting of votes in constituencies where VVPAT slips do not tally with EVM figures.
New Delhi: Reiterating its demand for new rules for counting of votes in constituencies where VVPAT slips do not tally with EVM figures, the CPI(M) on Monday said in such cases, all VVPAT slips should be counted.
Opposition parties have urged the Election Commission (EC) to frame new rules for counting of votes in constituencies where VVPAT slips do not tally with EVM figures.
On VVPATs & the EVM tally, the EC is yet to come out with a procedure in case there is a mismatch! Even if there is one mismatch in the VVPAT samples picked for counting and EVMs, to maintain integrity of the electoral process, all VVPATs in that assembly segment must be counted
— Sitaram Yechury (@SitaramYechury) May 20, 2019
This is after the Supreme Court rejected a review petition filed by 21 opposition parties for increasing VVPAT tallying with EVM figures to 50 per cent.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury took his complaint to the Twitter:
Polling for the seven-phased Lok Sabha election came to an end on Sunday and the counting of votes will be taken up on May 23.
